# Pavol Pitoňák

Pavol Pitoňák (born 26 February 1972) is a Slovak male curler and curling coach.
As a coach of Slovak wheelchair curling team he participated in 2018 Winter Paralympics.

## Teams
### Men's

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| 2004–05 | Pavel Kocián | Radomir Vozar | Pavol Pitoňák | Juraj Kapolka | Stefan Turna | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2004 (21st) |
| 2005–06 | Pavol Pitoňák | Pavel Kocian | Radomir Vozar | Juraj Kapolka | Stefan Turna | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2005 (23rd) |
| 2007–08 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | Milan Kalis | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2007 (17th) |
| 2008–09 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | Stefan Turna | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2008 (21st) |
| 2009–10 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | Stefan Turna | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2009 (28th) |
| 2010–11 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2010 (14th) |
| 2011–12 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | Milan Kajan | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2011 (24th) |
| 2012–13 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | Rene Petko | Gerry "Soupy" Campbell | ECC 2012 (23rd) |
| 2014–15 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | Juraj Gallo | | ECC 2014 (28th) |
| 2016–17 | David Misun | Juraj Gallo | Jakub Polak | Pavol Pitoňák | Patrik Kapralik | | |
| 2017–18 | David Misun | Juraj Gallo | Jakub Polak | Pavol Pitoňák | Patrik Kapralik | | |
| 2018–19 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | | | ECC 2018 (22nd) |
| 2019–20 | Pavol Pitoňák | František Pitoňák | Tomáš Pitoňák | Peter Pitoňák | | | ECC 2019 (25th) |

### Mixed

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| 2007–08 | Pavel Kocián | Barbora Vojtusova | Pavol Pitoňák | Zuzana Axamitová | Ronald Krcmar | Vladimira Pitoňáková | EMxCC 2007 (12th) |
| 2011–12 | Pavel Kocián | Daniela Matulová | Pavol Pitoňák | Silvia Sýkorová | | | EMxCC 2011 (16th) |
| 2012–13 | Pavol Pitoňák | Gabriela Kajanová | František Pitoňák | Petra Pitoňáková | | | EMxCC 2012 (9th) |
| 2013–14 | Pavol Pitoňák | Daniela Matulová | František Pitoňák | Zuzana Axamitová | | Vladimira Pitoňáková | EMxCC 2013 (8th) |

### Mixed doubles

| Season | Male | Female | Coach | Events |
| 2011–12 | Pavol Pitoňák | Silvia Sýkorová | Daniel Sýkora | WMDCC 2012 (17th) |
| 2012–13 | Pavol Pitoňák | Gabriela Kajanová | Vladimira Pitoňáková | WMDCC 2013 (19th) |

## Record as a coach of national teams

| Year | Tournament, event | National team | Place |
| 2008 | 2008 World Wheelchair Curling Qualification | Slovakia (wheelchair) | 10 |
| 2017 | 2017 World Junior B Curling Championships | Slovakia (junior women) | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018 Winter Paralympics | Slovakia (wheelchair) | 9 |

## Personal life

He is from big family of curlers: three of his brothers (František, Tomáš and Peter) are Pavol's teammates, they played together many times on European championships and other international curling tournaments; one more his brother Dušan played wheelchair curling (Pavol and František coaches their wheelchair team on Worlds and Winter Paralympics); other family members also are curlers or coaches.